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The Linen Chest 
Our missionaries say that the ministry of the Linen Chest by Women of the Church of God is unlike any other program in the world. Our missionaries recount stories of missionaries from other church traditions being amazed at the scope of the Linen Chest ministry.
Women of the Church of God provides the household necessities that each mission family will need while in service and upon final return from service. The Linen Chest ministry extends to retired missionaries, missionary children, and recipients of Minister's Aid.
Women of the Church of God groups typically send cash donations to support the Linen Chest. This is preferable as the national office often buys linens direct from the factory, enabling us to purchase high-quality merchandise at discount prices. Nearly $30,000 is donated annually.
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Career Missionary Gifts
Kitchen, Bath & Bed Linens
Dish cloths and towels, hot pads and mitts, table linens, bath towels and mats, bed sheets, pillow protectors, mattress pad covers, bedspreads, and pillows are provided free of charge to our mission families. The laundry facilities for many missionary women includes a wringer washer and a clothes line dryer; therefore, we attempt to purchase high quality linens so they will last throughout the four years of service. The mission family is re-supplied with linens every four years.
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Stan and Marion Hoffman visiting the Linen Chest. The Hoffmans served as career missionaries to Africa for over 40 years.
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Tupperware & Silverware
Mission families often reside in locations which require air-tight containers for many articles of food. Tupperware, Rubber Maid and other plastic ware is given to help them with their storage needs.
A one-time personal gift of Oneida flatware is given to each career mission family that is theirs to keep for life. The Betty Crocker coupons that our women clip so diligently enable us to purchase high quality flatware at discount prices. |
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Washing Machines & Refrigerators in Field Residences
Women of the Church of God gives a $500 cash gift for each washing machine and refrigerator placed in missionary housing on mission fields.
Clothing Allowance for Women Missionaries
When a woman returns for home assignment in the United States after four years on the field, Women of the Church of God gives her a cash gift of $500 to replenish her wardrobe. Most women will take care of their family's needs before their own; this gift is intended to take care of the woman herself.
Care & Renewal Funds
Each year Women of the Church of God gives a $4,000 cash gift to Outreach Ministries of the Church of God to assist with registration costs for marriage and family enrichment seminars, and missionary re-entry adjustment seminars for missionary children.
College Assistance for Missionary Teens
Women of the Church of God pays for one year of residence hall rent for each career missionary teen attending college or university. In addition, the teen missionary receives a one-time gift of bed and bath linens and a modest supply of kitchenware and linens.
Missionary Residences
While missionaries are on home assignment they reside at the Crose Missionary Apartments or Hunter House. Bed, bath and kitchen linens, curtains and draperies, kitchenware and flatware are provided through the Linen Chest.
Retired Career Missionaries
Each year a subscription to the National Geographic is given to all retired career missionaries.
Minister's Aid Recipients
Minister's Aid Recipients served in ministry before the Church of God Board of Pensions was established to assist them in their retirement years. A cash gift of $175 is given to each Minister's Aid recipient every Christmas.
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 Our official Linen Chest "shopper,"Jan Edwards keeps the Linen Chest shelves well stocked for our missionaries. Jan and her family served as Career Missionaries and Regional Directors for Global Missions. Her husband, Bob Edwards, is the Global Missions Coordinator for Church of God Ministries. Jan is well acquainted with the needs of the missionary family.
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